JANUARY 28
ON THIS DAY IN 1985 FORTY-SIX MAJOR AMERICAN RECORDING ARTISTS CAME TOGETHER AT A&M STUDIOS IN HOLLYWOOD, TO RECORD “WE ARE THE WORLD”. THE SONG TOPPED OVER 20 MUSIC CHARTS WORLDWIDE, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY IT RAISED MILLIONS TO BATTLE FAMINE IN AFRICA.
TODAY IN 1978 VAN HALEN RELEASED THEIR FIRST SINGLE, A COVER OF THE KINKS’ “YOU REALLY GOT ME”’ FOR THEIR 1978 SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM, ‘VAN HALEN’. THIS SONG ULTIMATELY BECAME THE BAND’S BREAKTHROUGH HIT, AS IT HAD DONE FOR THE KINKS 14 YEARS EARLIER.
A SAD DAY FOR ROCK N ROLL WITH THE LOSS OF BILLY POWELL, LYNYRD SKYNYRD’S KEYBOARDIST IN 2009, JIM CALPALDI OF TRAFFIC IN 2005 AND 74-YEAR-OLD PAUL KANTNER, FOUNDING MEMBER, GUITARIST AND VOCALIST FOR JEFFERSON AIRPLANE IN 2016.
